Microblogs and EDU – Making the Most of 140 Characters

What’s a Tweet and why should you care? And what does that really have to do with education? Jeff O’Hara, the founder of the educational social network Edmodo, takes us through a history of microblogging and shares his perspective regarding why it is significant to educators and students. Then we take a deeper dive into the tool he created, Edmodo, and see how teachers are using it around the world.

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